[Seemingly gentle but secretly dangerous man × Pure-hearted little rabbit]
They met in the storm of fate, and with unpracticed hands, he sheltered her beneath a patch of clear sky.
When Xu Zhi was ten, her world sank into darkness along with her father’s body. Her diplomat father had been caught in a riot while on a mission. He had stayed forever on foreign soil to protect his colleagues. At the funeral, seventeen-year-old Pei Lian held her trembling hand tight and made a vow that would change both their lives: “I’ll protect you for the rest of your life.”
Pei Lian stubbornly interpreted this promise as “I’ll marry you when you’re an adult,” and it became the one path his life would follow. When he learned that Xu Zhi planned to apply to the acting program at the Central Academy of Drama, he resolutely switched fields and enrolled in its master’s program in acting, all so he could keep standing three meters behind her, watching over her in silence.
The summer she turned eighteen, Xu Zhi rescued a kitten trapped in a tree, and unknowingly saved its owner as well: Jiang Yi. An actor her own age, he carved this bright-smiling girl into his heart. Three years later, when twenty-one-year-old Xu Zhi walked into his theater as an intern, Jiang Yi recognized at once the girl who had shone like a beacon in his gloomy life on that forgotten rainy day.
When Pei Lian came up against Jiang Yi, the feelings he had suppressed for years finally burst through the dam of reason.
When the lights come up, who will be the true leading man in her story?
